There has recently been renewed interest among economic historians in preindustrial inequality, but there are still few case studies on wealth inequality in preindustrial Latin America, particularly involving colonial Spanish America before 1820. This paper presents a study of wealth inequality in ...
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This study linked national wealth and income inequality to socioeconomic inequalities in adolescents' mental well-being and found contrasting effects. The mental well-being of adolescents is of pressing global concern. Mental health problems affect 10%–20% of children and adolescents worldwide and ...
In South Africa, high levels of wealth inequality have persisted since 1994, to the extent that 1% of the population owns 50% of the wealth. This study examines how macroeconomic policies influenced wealth inequality in South Africa over the period 2010 to 2019 using a behavioural life-cycle mo...
Averaging $51,000 in wealth, the bottom 50% make up the lowest share, accounting for 3% of the wealth distribution in America. Income growth across this bracket has increased by over 10% between 2020 and 2022, higher than all other brackets aside from the top 1%. Overall, the top 10% ...
Global wealth distribution 2022, by region + Premium statistics GINI coefficient in Venezuela 2014-2023 Share of wealth held by the richest 10 percent worldwide 1995-2022 + Premium statistics Share of the global wealth held by the richest percent 2002-2022 Latin America: wealth inequality based...
Latin America: richest people 2024, by wealth Source of the majority of annual income among wealthy Americans, 2013 Financial wealth per adult APAC 2022, by country Share of art purchases among high net worth households in India - by source 2016 ...
What you’ll learn in this year’s Global Wealth Report How the world is getting progressively richer across all wealth segments, and which markets are set to benefit. The probability of moving between wealth brackets in a lifetime. How the great wealth transfer might look in practice. ...
Piketty’s second historical insight is that Europe and later America got rich on the back of both the Industrial Revolution and colonisation. In 1820, between country (inter-country) inequality was only 11% of global inequality meaning that most inequality was domestic (intra-country). ...